Huntington, West Virginia, drug dealer sentenced to 70 months in prison

February 10th, 2010 - 4:51 am ICT by BNO News ( Leave a comment )

HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA (BNO NEWS) – A drug dealer of Huntington, West Virginia was sentenced to 70 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute oxycodone and for being a felon in possession of a gun, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Roderick Devine McNeal, 26, pleaded guilty last November after being arrested at a Huntington restaurant by investigators. He was in possession of a quantity of oxycontin, $5,791 in cash and a 9mm pistol. He was prohibited to carry guns after a previous conviction in Utah in 2005. One hundred oxycontin pills were found in a later search of McNeal’s home.

McNeal was on the spotlight after selling cocaine base and oxycodone to informants working with authorities from a join investigation conducted by the Huntington Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

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